Great new article by Olga Sheean. We’ve all joined the big wifi party, but none of us know what the long term effects – both health-wise and socially – will be. As the inventor of one of the early cellphone microwave protection devices, I know quite a lot about this, and I don’t think this party has a happy ending.

Google along with the US Geological Survey, NASA and TIME has shared a quarter-century of photos taken from space that show the surface of the earth and the changes that have happened over that period. From Google’s blogpost:

“We started working with the USGS in 2009 to make this historic archive of earth imagery available online. Using Google Earth Engine technology, we sifted through 2,068,467 images—a total of 909 terabytes of data—to find the highest-quality pixels (e.g., those without clouds), for every year since 1984 and for every spot on Earth. We then compiled these into enormous planetary images, 1.78 terapixels each, one for each year.”